Try this:

Right-Click on the OrderDate heading in the Pivot Table
....Select: Group and Show Detail
....Select: Group
....Select: Quarters
....Click: [OK]

The individual dates will be grouped by quarters,

Note: if you have more than one year in the data,
you may want to also group by Year.

Does that help?
Post back if you have more questions.
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Regards,

Ron
Microsoft MVP (Excel)
(XL2003, Win XP)

"Kimmer" wrote in message
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I am having trouble with pivot tables. Need to create a pivottable that
summarizes Total amount of orders by quarter. I have these columns
company
name,country,orderdate, sales rep,shipper, category, product name,
unitprice,
quantity,discount%,freight, totalamount. I was sure I just put total
sales
and the order date in but I cant get it to do this in quarters. I am
taking
a class that the teacher is of no help.
thanks
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